About 25,000 PDVSA workers resigned between the start of January 2017 and the end of January 2018,
out of a workforce last officially reported at 146,000, Reuters reported last week.
Not exact matches
But too much
of that is due to people dropping
out of the
workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which
last prevailed in 1978.
HP
last May announced plans to reduce its
workforce by some 27,000 people
out of a staff
of 350,000.
On the other hand, private industry has laid off a good chunk
of their
workforce while squeezing every
last bit
of productivity
out of those who remain, held back raises while telling their employees they're lucky to have a job, stopped making 401k matching contributions even after their profits have soared to record highs and they've banked a ton
of cash that they're NOT spending to hire or rehire laid - off employees.
CIHT has set
out the benefits
of employing a more diverse
workforce in a new animated video launched at
last week's National Conference.
We are not training enough nurses, doing too little to stop nurses leaving, with the number leaving the NHS increasing year - on - year to 35,000
last year, and the outlook for international recruitment - historically the health service's get -
out -
of - jail - free card for poor
workforce planning - is at risk.
«Managing the Teacher
Workforce,» by Dan Goldhaber, looks at the impact
of last - in, first -
out personnel policies.
For example, as pointed
out last year by Republican John Kline
of Minnesota, an ESSA co-author and former chair
of the House Committee on Education and the
Workforce, «Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer.»
One
of the issues we have, I suppose, is that we've had many reviews over the years
of teacher education and the teacher
workforce, and many recommendations have come
out of those, particularly around the support for early career teachers, and a number
of things in different states have been put into place, particularly over the
last five to 10 years.
In a review
of California's «
last in, first
out» process conducted over four years ago, the state's own Legislative Analyst Office concluded that seniority - based layoffs lead «to lower quality
of the overall teacher
workforce» and recommended that «the state explore alternatives that could provide districts with the discretion to do what is in the best interest
of their students.»